Posted on 11/17/2013 11:32:28 PM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A disturbing trend among American conservatives is the increasing sense of optimism about President Obama's slow fade in mainstream perceptions, and its ramifications for the future of American leftism. Does Obama's decline entail the undoing of the movement he represents? Progressivism's history reveals another option, which is that the movement will, in the name of saving itself, reject Obama.
Progressives are rigid in their ideology, to be sure, but this rigidity does not extend to their support for leaders. For it follows from the inhumane core of progressivism itself that all men--even "historic" ones--are expendable in the name of the cause, namely history's march into totalitarianism.
It is true that Obama has begun to get some bad, or at least unworshipful, press,and that this is both causing and reflecting a drop in his general popularity. It is naïve, however, to assume that it betokens a breach of the establishment's ideological firewall.
Apologists for Stalin's Russia were reluctant to admit that their hero was a bloodthirsty tyrant. However, when the state-controlled press and a complicit Western intelligentsia were unable to suppress the truth any longer, even those apologists turned on him--not because he no longer represented their views,but because he no longer served their interests. Subsequently, this process of blaming all the regime's evils on one leader as a way of purifying the next became an essential mechanism of Soviet oppression. It is not hard to see how democratic politics may be corrupted into the perfection of such a mechanism. Thus, a similar fate could befall Obama, if American progressives find that their shiny hood ornament has become a rusty eyesore.
For more than six years,the American political establishment has provided cover for Obama--and that is the entire establishment, from the hard leftists of the Democrat wing to the hard careerists of the Republican wing...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Hell no...not a chance.
Only for the purpose of getting the next candidate nominated.
Did Nazism survive without Hitler?
There is a need to tie Obama to Progressivism so tightly that when one goes down the other will too. ObamaCare = HillaryCare = Universal Healthcare. They are one in the same and they are all failures.
Long but great read.
Yes it did, but underground. It spread to the Middle East and many other parts too. For a while, it even ran the United Nations directly and got Zionism declared “racism”.
The hidden obvious part of this article is the direct comparison of Obama to Stalin, without a hint of drama.
Oprah is working hard to make sure that doesn’t happen...
They ought to yank him like a rotten tooth. Are they smart enough to actually do it? Nope.
. . . Which is precisely what the article predicts.
Excellent article.
The money quote at the end of this well written article:
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“The turn against Obama will be contingent and temporary, and will in no way hinder his future career as the ultimate celebrity ex-president — America’s Historic First Ever Cool Cokehead Completely Fabricated LGBT Community-Organizing Contraceptive-Dispensing Communist-in-Chief.”
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But by then he will have done so much damage it will take more than 20 years for America to repair it. By then I will be dead.Thats why I and thousands like me have became ex pats.
Had Operation Barbarossa succeeded, it would have.
Very good article. I’d almost call it a “must read.” Thanks for posting.
Sometimes it seems that Satan is the next candidate.
“They ought to yank him like a rotten tooth. Are they smart enough to actually do it? Nope.”
They own him; they’ll use him until he no longer serves any purpose, then try to claw back enough credibility to christen his successor.
No, next question.
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